Fall 2022 Faculty Spotlight


I am an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Anthropology at NAU. I have a long-standing interest in Latin America and ancient Andean civilization. In 2010, I began what would become a long-term research project in the Lambayeque region of the north coast of Peru, one of the two centers of primary cultural development in the Central… Read more
Typologies are central to archaeology. Everything from spear points to pottery designs to sandals to societies have been classified into types. Anthropologist Julian Steward in 1954 even proposed a typology of typologies, writing an article called “Types of Types.”… 